Comment on King Charles to receive huge pay rise from UK taxpayers

Baggers@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Skua@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ahh, the video that says the British castles are more attractive to American tourists than French ones literally as it shows a picture of a monastery in famously republican and world number one tourist destination France as the "awesome" UK one. While we're on the topic of facts being facts, the Crown Estate is not the private property of the monarch as claimed in the video and my source on that is the Crown Estate. The other argument is "oh the name of the country would be weird if we got rid of the monarchy and then also changed the country's name to something weird".

  We could, if we wanted, literally just decide that the monarch is to be democratically elected and is otherwise still called king or queen and still gets the fancy outfits and a justification to keep the name the same. They're our laws.

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  • the_inebriati@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We could, if we wanted, literally just decide

    This is basically what it comes down to.

    Unless you’re worried about Charlie sailing to France to raise a mercenary army, we can assume he’ll do exactly what he’s told.

    Even if the Crown Estate was his personal property (which it isn’t) - parliament is sovereign and there’s more of us than him. We could just take it from him.

    God, I hope long enough to see a Great British Republic.

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    • G4Z@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We should just take it, it was taken in the first place by force.

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• rubberkeys@freeradical.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  @Baggers @thehatfox

  That video is utter rubbish. Here's every point refuted:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiE2DLqJB8U

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• the_inebriati@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I swear every monarchy-loving flag-shagger bases their entire personality off the same 4 minute, 12-year-old poorly researched youtube video.

  No, Charlie Boy would not get to keep the Crown Estate were we to evict him.

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• damnYouSun@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I miss r/casualUK where everyone nas more normal.

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  • Hogger85b@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There is !ukcasual a pretty active c with same vibe

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  • G4Z@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That sub is shite.

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  • HaunchesTV@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The “no politics” rule on the sub really only stopped the flag nonces from piping up. They were there, I’m sure.

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